Presented by the River Tree Arts Maine Playwright Series on Friday, April 29 and Saturday April 30 at 7:30 pm.

(Kennebunk ME) If you met Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on the street today, what would that encounter be like? In celebration of the bicentennial of Longfellow's birth, Daniel Noel created a theatrical piece to honor this great poet. Using materials sequestered in libraries and private collections, Noel created this inventive new play interweaving Longfellow’s memoirs and correspondence with his poetry to bring to the stage the real life stories of this national literary figure who helped define an era and the city in which he lived. During the Victorian Age, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow walked the streets of Portland and put pen to paper to create some of the most influential works of poetry in the history of America. Longfellow touched a chord not only with Americans but also an international audience through his heroic poetry, pride of place, and multicultural themes.

Thanks to an NEA Grant and Maine Humanities, Noel's Longfellow: A Life In Words paints a vibrant portrait of the fun-loving, witty and inquisitive soul who became a beloved American literary giant. Daniel Noel is an Affiliate Artist at Portland Stage Company and co-creator of the Longfellow's Shorts author series. As an actor, he has appeared in The Human Comedy on Broadway and for Joe Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Portland Stage productions include Bach at Liepzig, The Drawer Boy, Arcadia, The Foreigner, Rough Crossing, A Christmas Carol, Terminal Exit and all From Aways and Little Festival's since 1998/1999. His 37 years in theater includes work with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, PS 122, Lincoln Center, New Playwright's, Boston's New Opera and Musical Theater Initiative, Stonington Opera House and the Seattle Repertory Theater. At the Seattle Rep., under John Hirsch, his one act The Peasant Joan (Transformations) was featured in the Sunday's Series as was his co-creation with J.K.Simmons, Brush Up Your Shakespeare (also on the Rep.Tour). Daniel has also worked in operas, cabarets, nightclubs, film, TV, voice over and commercial work. He is currently a commentator for Liberty News TV and announcer for Steve Lutrell's The Poet's Cafe. Look for him as Estragon this summer in Portland's Fenix Theater production of Waiting For Godot.

Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. River Tree Arts is located at 35 Western Avenue in Kennebunk. For more information, please call 207-967-9120 or visit www.rivertreearts.org.

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